EB2-NIW Waiting for Interview Letter in London 2023

[As2024 6]

20 hours ago, appleblossom said:

 

As above, your DQ date isn't really relevant as you had to wait for a long time to be added to the queue - people who were only DQ'ed in December will have had IL's but only if their PD's were current. 

 

So if you've only been current for 3 weeks but not had an IL, you'll be in the next batch. You are London I assume?

My visa category is EB2 and now am resident in UK . 

[SRA_WLS 2]

Hi everyone,

 

Appreciate if someone please, based on their recent experience can give some basic tips on US embassy London inside steps and how we can best organize ourselves for Visa interview day in terms of documents etc.

 

• Is it better and advisable to organize documents in a proper file with divider etc and we can handover the file itself or we need to handover these as & when asked about each specific one? Also, if the original docs are already handed over to a staff before heading to visa officer?
• For any additional docs which were not part of those earlier submitted to NVC eg. any additional Work Experience or New Academic qualification, should we keep it with us and handed it over to visa officer while talking to him during interview about those things?
• Can we carry our back pack with documents files to Embassy?

Any other helpful tips for interview day would be appreciated.

 

Thanks & kind regards,  

[snm2212 82]

18 hours ago, Am2024 said:

Thank you , could you please what time was you DQ date ? It was in April 2023 ? 

Yes. April 2023

[As2024 6]

42 minutes ago, snm2212 said:

Yes. April 2023

Thank you so much . Could you please tell me the exact date of your Dq as I want to estimate the date of my interview ?
Many thanks 

[snm2212 82]

7 minutes ago, Am2024 said:

Thank you so much . Could you please tell me the exact date of your Dq as I want to estimate the date of my interview ?
Many thanks 

April 25,2023

[As2024 6]

3 hours ago, snm2212 said:

April 25,2023

Many thanks 

[appleblossom 2,813]

4 hours ago, SRA_WLS said:

Hi everyone,

 

Appreciate if someone please, based on their recent experience can give some basic tips on US embassy London inside steps and how we can best organize ourselves for Visa interview day in terms of documents etc.

 

• Is it better and advisable to organize documents in a proper file with divider etc and we can handover the file itself or we need to handover these as & when asked about each specific one? Also, if the original docs are already handed over to a staff before heading to visa officer?
• For any additional docs which were not part of those earlier submitted to NVC eg. any additional Work Experience or New Academic qualification, should we keep it with us and handed it over to visa officer while talking to him during interview about those things?
• Can we carry our back pack with documents files to Embassy?

Any other helpful tips for interview day would be appreciated.

 

Thanks & kind regards,  

 

You are asked to go up to a window, a few things are checked and you hand over your documents then sit back down to wait to be called for your actual interview. I only had a few documents though so it wouldn't have warranted a divider, I just had them in a clear plastic folder. They are very unlikely to take any new docs, they just want what is on the checklist. And yes, a backpack is fine as long as it's not too big.

 

Good luck. 

[As2024 6]

6 hours ago, appleblossom said:

 

You are asked to go up to a window, a few things are checked and you hand over your documents then sit back down to wait to be called for your actual interview. I only had a few documents though so it wouldn't have warranted a divider, I just had them in a clear plastic folder. They are very unlikely to take any new docs, they just want what is on the checklist. And yes, a backpack is fine as long as it's not too big.

 

Good luck. 

How about cellphone / mobile phone ? Can we bring it with ourselves inside of the embassy ? 

[appleblossom 2,813]

20 minutes ago, Am2024 said:

How about cellphone / mobile phone ? Can we bring it with ourselves inside of the embassy ? 

 

Yes, we all took ours (2 adults and 2 teens). 

[dolibash 26]

Hey everyone 

 

does anyone know how long normally does the medical take?

 

@appleblossom 

[Boiler 45,740]

Mine was about an hour? And even then most of that time was hanging around.

[appleblossom 2,813]

1 hour ago, dolibash said:

Hey everyone 

 

does anyone know how long normally does the medical take?

 

@appleblossom 

We were there for about 2 hours but there were 4 of us. 
 

HTH. 

[As2024 6]

12 hours ago, dolibash said:

Hey everyone 

 

does anyone know how long normally does the medical take?

 

@appleblossom 

Hello , could you please tell when was your Dq ? And what date is your interview date ? 
many thanks . 

[appleblossom 2,813]

12 hours ago, Am2024 said:

Hello , could you please tell when was your Dq ? And what date is your interview date ? 
many thanks . 

You asked above and s/he gave you the DQ date (April 2023 - PD wasn’t current until recently). Not sure on interview date though (@dolibash please update your timeline!). 😊

[dolibash 26]

@Am2024 my timeline is updates. I was DQed in Apr 2023. Interview in on Feb 16 24. I got the IL on Jan 16 24